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Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump in the East Room at the White House in Washington DC after their meeting in the Oval Office, February 27, 2025
SIR KEIR STARMER’S prostration before Donald Trump looks set to receive a humiliating rebuff as the US president announces tariffs on the British economy.
The Prime Minister has been almost alone among world leaders in refusing to criticise the erratic Mr Trump in the hope that Britain would be spared from his economic warfare.
Yet Sir Keir conceded that it was likely that Britian will be hit by the tariffs due to be unveiled by Mr Trump today, which could amount to a tax of 25 per cent of value on all goods entering the US.
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
